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Africa Challenged To Produce Its Own Generic Drugs

... the end of that summit had pledged to work toward providing universal treatment access for people living with ...lists six goals (to be achieved by 2010) including providing access to basic services to at least five million children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS; ensuri...

Phone Counseling Helps Patients Improve Eating and Exercise Habits

...ivity and diet are complex behaviors to change, so providing support over a longer period of time is more effective than short-term interventions,” Eakin said. Despite the review’s overall positive findings, few studies evaluated whether the positive outcomes of phone counseling lasted after the counseling s...

Parents To Blame For Soaring Counts Of Binge-Drinkers And Smokers

...ice for underage pupils, saying school nurses were providing a "valuable service". School nurses provide emergency contraception such as morning-after pills as well as contraceptive devices to students. The Ofsted report on personal, social and health education, which was based on 350 school inspections over...

New Therapy for Lipid Disorder Demonstrates Varied Results

...also allows better protection of patient safety by providing study sponsors, investigators, and data and safety monitoring committees with a better appreciation of any potential risks that may require close monitoring,' they conclude. Source-Eurekalert/B...

Early Estrogen Therapy May Reduce Cardiovascular Risks

...n clotting disease. “The WHI was instrumental in providing a roadmap for the next phase of research to examine whether estrogen protects younger women from cardiovascular disease, as earlier observational studies indicated, said Harman. “KEEPS is designed to provide useful new data to begin answering women’s...

NYC Mayor Raises Questions About Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention Method

...that government should be involved in promoting or providing male circumcisions. According to Bloomberg, the number of HIV/AIDS cases in the city is very high, despite education campaigns. "We have to do something about it, and we should be looking at everything," Bloomberg said, adding that when "reputable...

Deflecting Damage: Flexible Electronics Aid Brain Injury Research

...embrane continue to monitor the cellular activity, providing a before and after picture of traumatic brain injury. Future work will continue to refine these measurements and also attempt to obtain readings from cells during the injury events themselves, Morrison said. The flexible electrodes also can be used...

Foundation Stone Laid for Public Health Institute

...e city outskirts. The Andhra Pradesh government is providing Rs.300 million for the IIPH in addition to the land. Ramdoss said the country lacked public health schools and these institutes would go a long way in making the trained human resources available. He hoped that public health schools would help in b...

National Neurosurgery Awareness Week Kicks Off During Annual Meeting of the AANS

...patients with spine and peripheral nerve problems, providing surgical and nonsurgical care. Have you or a family member undergone successful surgery to treat Parkinson’s disease, congenital deformities, hydrocephalus, tumors of the central nervous system, low back or neck pain, stroke, cerebral aneurysms, h...

New Clinical Trial Results Could Improve Survival for Myeloma Patients

...Myeloma Foundation (IMF) - supporting research and providing education, advocacy and support for myeloma patients, families, researchers and physicians// - today said physicians should consider lowering the dose of the steroid dexamethasone when treating patients with multiple myeloma. High dose dexamethason...

Depression Increases the Risk of Disease Progression and Death in HIV-positive Women

... women and recommends screening for depression and providing psychosocial interventions as part of a comprehensive HIV care. There is increasing evidence that depression or stress may accelerate HIV disease progression. Depression might directly alter immune functions or might cause behavioral changes result...

Eritrea Bans Female Circumcision

...quests, incites or promotes female circumcision by providing tools or any other means and whosoever, knowing that female circumcision is to take place or has taken place, fails without good cause, to warn or inform the proper authorities promptly, shall be punishable with a fine and imprisonment,' it continued...

Spicy Pepper Remedy Equalizes Spring Pollen Allergies

...f has been drugs that simply mask symptoms without providing true relief," adds Perry. Source:Emediawire SRM/B...

Haryana Government Proposes to Set Up Medical University

...that setting up a medical university would help in providing better healthcare facilities for people of the sta...f funds would not be allowed to come in the way of providing healthcare to everyone in Haryana. He added that the target was to make Haryana the No.1 state in th...

Most Pediatricians Do Not Hire Professional Interpreters for Bilingual Patients

...nly a few states provide doctors reimbursement for providing the services for patients covered under public health insurance. Kuo said, "This is about training interpreters to do medical interpreting well. A medical term in one language may have no direct translation in another language," adding, "We know t...

India Should Take the Lead in Stem Cell Research, Expert

... them in treatments using stem cells. They will be providing the technological assistance to harvest and provide the stem cells," said JS Rajkumar, chairman of the Lifeline group of Hospitals. The hospital is planning to do research using stem cells for treating diseases such as liver disorder, diabetes and ...

Cure for Cancer One Step Closer

...ough in the fight against cancer," she said. "By providing researchers who are part of an ethically and scientifically approved research project with tissue, matching blood samples and full clinical data, valuable funds will be saved, which can then be applied to further their research. "There is compellin...

LondonMet Keen on Widening Research Collaborations With India

...ap in professionals and at widening participation, providing postgraduate education for working people," Aylett said. All over the world, including in Britain, "widening participation" is looked at as a process to include raising the skill and knowledge of working people at managerial levels, mostly post-40...

Hospital Errors Rise 3 Percent -- HealthGrades Patient-safety Study

...y. "But the nation's best-performing hospitals are providing benchmarks for the hospital industry, exercising a... for Patient Safety continue to lead the nation in providing safer care…resulting in much lower costs to society. We believe that Distinguished Hospitals have de...

1-visit Screening, Prevention for Cervical Cancer Holds Promise

...en in Ghana for early signs of cervical cancer and providing //preventive treatment at the same visit appears to be safe, acceptable to women and feasible, according to a study by a researcher at the Stanford University School of Medicine. If this technique can be scaled up effectively, it could help preven...

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